Věra Součková

* 1939

  • "He litigated for eleven years over patents. Because one thing happened there: shortly after the transfer was completed, Transfera, the organization that was created at the Ministry of Culture because of the transfer, was dissolved. It was delimited between four organizations, but it was not at all clear who should pay the patents, who was responsible for the move. This was a long time in the making. So then [it was decided between the organizations] that that was it. So it was finally found, after a long time it was found. But she gave it to the experts. There were things! For example, the expert said that nothing was spared because the church was and the church is. That the move was paid for, I don't know what was used to pay for the move. But that nothing new was created, so there is no reason."

  • "There were a number of principles on which to do it, and my husband dealt with it mainly at home in the garage. He built a prototype of the sensor, had it [based] on it. Skoda Pilsen agreed that the way it was designed, it should sense the level - that there would be maybe thirty or fifty-four of these sensors with the tank. That it should be interconnected. There were a lot of things that needed to be there. What to fill it with, what properties it had, all very complicated."

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    Praha, 14.11.2025

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The software for moving the church in Most was produced by my husband in the garage

Věra Součková, 80s
Věra Součková, 80s
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Věra Součková was born on April 11, 1939 in Benešov, where she graduated from the local grammar school. During her studies she met her future husband Jiří Souček. She continued her studies at the then Faculty of Technical and Nuclear Physics of the Czech Technical University, which she completed in 1962. Both she and her husband were interested in semiconductors. After university, she started working in Benešov in a company that was engaged in the production and development of semiconductors, she worked as the head of the testing room. A year after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops, the witness and her husband refused to sign a consent to the invasion. Jiří Souček was fired from the ČKD Semiconductor Company and Věra Součková could no longer work as the head of the testing room. In 1972, Jiří Souček began working on software for the relocation of the church in Most, and was employed by the Inova production cooperative. He sued the state for recognition of the patents used in the transfer of the church until 1986. The witness was living in Prague in November 2025.